by John Green at American Thinker
A new Gallup poll found that confidence in our institutions is collapsing. That means that Americans have lost confidence in our government, social, and economic institutions to care for us. It’s about time.
Of the sixteen institutions addressed in the poll, Congress, under the leadership of San Fran Nan, lands at the bottom of the list, with only 7% confidence. Surprise, surprise. Maybe Congress should get back to legislating and budgeting – you know, the things that require them to talk across the aisle and find solutions to actual problems.
But instead of doing their actual job, this Congress is focused on calling half of the country a bunch of deplorable insurrectionists, attempting to eliminate the last vestiges of freedom, and running social engineering experiments of which only deranged and misguided atheists would approve.
The award for the institution with the second lowest confidence goes to television news (11% confidence). TV news has been on a downward slide ever since Dan Rather declared they were in the “fake but accurate” business. That would be the business where the actual facts don’t matter as long as the narrative sounds good. Of course, that’s just another way of saying the media is a piece of the propaganda machine.
Between “fake news” attacks on Trump,…
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